2008

It's gonna be 2009 in a few days and as I ponder 2008 was a great great year for me. Now with new challenges and career opportunities this January I'm so very thankful that God blessed all my hard work the past year.

To reward myself I got a few gifts for myself this Christmas, first I bought an HP laptop, then a Nintendo DS Lite (Onyx Black) with 2Gig EDGE Flashcart (for my kids as well) and a collector's item Final Fantasy X Original PS2 DVD (from TipidPC). I'm a Final Fantasy Series Fan so I bought it ^_^, the original price is PHP 2,500++ butI got it for a bargain of PHP500 and in mint condition.



These will keep me busy until JAN 5 along with the Boxed set of HOUSE MD (Season 1-4) that I bought for my marathon tv series run. ^_^

Thanks 2008, Here I come 2009!

Merry Christmas!!!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a joyous New Year!!!!

Despedidas and Promotion BlowOuts

Candid, Vhan, Keith and Lester treated us for lunch for their despedida and promotion(Lester) at Harbor Bay View Bistro at MOA last Dec 19. It was a cool get together with old PS friends as well as new ones.we even get to have a picture with Sitti the Bossa Nova Singer who to our surprise was also in the bistro.


Lester who never knew Sitti became an instant fan :P

The Next Challenge

So the news is out, I officially tendered my resignation last Dec 01 and on terminal leave since Dec 16. I'm moving to a new endeavor which will provide me more opportunities for career growth. The great thing about it is I'm going to work with my former team from Peoplesupport which coincidentally got accepted as well. I actually have several offers but most noted are Macquarie's offer and a certain BPO in Ortigas as Incident Manager. It was a tough choice and I chose to be where my former team will also be; the Australian Based Global Financial Company Macquarie.

I will officially start on January 5, 2009 ; Macquarie was very happy with us joining the pioneer global I.T. team that they invited us to the blessing of their newly added floor office in 6750 Makati to augment their growing space needs and at the same time to their Christmas party in Hard Rock Makati last DEC 12, even though we haven't started working yet :P.

The whole gang was there and here's some pics of the event.

With Gary (VP for Philippine Site)

At Hard Rock Makati with Arie and Randy (new Guy from Etelecare)

The whole gang from Peoplesupport, from Helpdesk to Server and Network Guys)

6750 Office, champagne toast! Dec 12

What I've learned from CHUCK

Never thought I'd be actually learning something new from Chuck Episode 09 . Officially, Pluto is no longer a planet. It sucks that I only learned about it today but it was already decided 2 years ago.

Heck, now the stuff they're teaching my kids on science must be updated..or else I have to let them watch CHUCK.

So Pluto is now demoted to a dwarf planet or a name of a dog.

College Nostalgia

I went to Mapua Intramuros last week to get a copy of my Transcript of Records (yes, its been there for ages) and it was a bit nostalgic. Well the Intramuros will give you that nostalgic feel but it seems that Mapua hasn't changed at all since I last went there around 10 plus years ago.

Before going there, i dropped at the Letran part of Intramuros so I can enjoy a good walk to Mapua. A lot has changed and I can smell the atmosphere of my college days in the air reminding me how good it was getting back to school.

At Mapua, I did notice some improvements on the school building. A lot new but most of the things stayed the same. I even went a tour again around campus and the halls seems to be the same way they felt ten years ago, but a lot quiter.

It was fun going back..and its nice that i will be going back here to pickup the TOR 4 weeks from now. I wish I can go back to school and study again.

Console Gaming

So ok, I bought a PS2 SPCH 5000 model (FAT one since I plan to put in a HDD on it) last Saturday from my fave site TipidPC.com for only 4k++. Good deal since the seller was luckily a batchmate of mine in High School and lived a few blocks away from my house. So I got a good deal on some extra controllers , nice warranty and he threw in a few games for me.



I played PS2 games on my "younger" years but mostly with friends since I don't own one. Now that my kids are growing, I bought one for them and *ehem* for me as well. It's a battle for NDSLite and PS2, but I guess PS2 has more titles to choose from right now so I opted for PS2 and maybe buy NDSLite this Christmas.

Now I can finally play GOW 1 and 2 and FFX to XII during weeknights and weekends. So my PSP will be temporarily parked until Final Fantasy Dissidia is released for PSP this December.

CHINA TRIP MOVED

Well got the news last Friday that my China trip will be moved to FEB 2009 since there is a global recession that we need to weather thru. It's ok for me since there are a lot of things I need to do this November (personal) that having this trip moved is a blessing.

I think they will hold the CHINA IT Meeting a few day before the Annual AsiaPac IT Meeting this Feb 2009.

Anyways November and December will simply breeze thru due to the holidays. Hmm i wonder how many days left till Christmas....

From DARK ALEX ; PSP CFW 5.0

Major update for the Homebrew community , Yay! Here it is.

Changes:

- 4.01 to 5.00

- Bug fix: when changing speed in xmb, and the psp turned the brightness to 0 automatically the speed was reset to 222 again.

Mirror1: http://rapidshare.com/files/154847567/5.00M33.rar
Mirror2: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WJ4RUYK0

5.00 ofw: http://rapidshare.com/files/154173870/500.PBP

I'm downloading the updates now..:D

OctoberFest : My version

No, its not a concert nor a party but more of treat for myself. This month I treated myself with a few nice things from the annual bonus I received in the office. The bonus was nice and hoping to get way more next year (hell yeah!).

For starters, my wife and I bought a new Philips home theater to match her newly bought TV rack. We were suppose to buy a new component which ended up to a Home Theater since we watch DVDs more often than listen to music, besides the salesman gave us a 2 thousand pesos discount if we get a home theater. So we did, and I was happy.

Next is I bought 2 PSP UMDs from my fave TIPIDPC.COM, Legend of Heroes 1 and Spectral Souls. I always wanted to have UMDs, its way cooler than having downloaded games on your memory stick. I already finished Legend of Heroes 3, so I bought the 1st installment of the game.

Lastly, I treated myself for a Full body massage, which i don't often had the chance to do.

So far so good, oh btw i was in night shift this week, and tonight was my last night but i was not able to go to work...the erratic sleep took a toll on me since monday...well at least i'll be spending a long weekend.

Nice October.

Happy 1st Year Anniversary Brady Helpdesk team!

WOOOOOTTTTT!!!

The Office Heroes Gossip.

So its the last stretch of my TV series slash anime weekend marathon month and I finally watched the first 2 episodes of Heroes Season 3, half way to Season 2 of The Office (very funny!), episode 5 of Prison Break Season 4, and the first 3 episodes of True Blood. So far I find True Blood a bit boring but i had to endure the 3 episodes because my wife wants to watch it.

Anyways in between those series, I happen to finish Star Wars: The Force Unleashed PSP game. My take on it, the gameplay is like God of War, but i liked GOW better. The story telling was too short and I find it not too interesting, and this was supposed to be the prequel story to the movie. Anyways its a 3/5 for me, coz I like the way I throw people and stuff in the air using the "Force"...... that maybe the only part i enjoyed in the game.

And lastly I am also watching Gossip Girl season 1 with my wife and i never imagined that i actually enjoyed watching this chick flick series. It's like Beverly Hills 90210, narrated by a third person point of view.

You know you love me...XOXO.

Anime and US TV series month.

Its been a busy August for me last month and and its still is mid of Sept. I wish I can push OCT 1st already when our new Helpdesk guy comes in so I can have some help in the afternoon helpdesk coverage. I've been juggling a lot of reponsibilities lately (US, AsiPac, Manila, helpdesk management and personal projects, and even time for my family) that i don't have time to follow my daily and weekly dose of anime, mangga and tv series viewing sessions.

So what i promised last week is to spend some time doing marathon runs of the tv series and anime i missed watching. So far I finished (some in progres) :Prison Break season 3 (watchin season 4 right now),The Office Season 1, Chuck season 1, Initian D 1st to 4th Stage (in progress), Terminator: Sarah Connor chronicles (in progress) and the list goes on....waiting for Heroes Season 3 and Chuck season 2.

And hey, Naruto Shippuuden is now back on the mannga story line,geez they spend 25 filler episodes before they went back to the main story. Just watched Ep 75, so to those waiting for the filler episodes to end, better start watching now.

Oh btw, Candid recommended for me to watch Gossip Girl, and I go uhhmmm is this really for male audience enjoyment as well?

Well maybe my wife will appreciate it.

Heroes Season 3

It airs on Monday Sept 22, Torrent Wooot! :D

Happy Birthday Honey

Belated na actually. Grabe matanda ka na, este tau pla. Pa burger ka naman! :P